ملف رقم ٢١٨٢ لسنة ١٩١٣، الجزء ٥، "منطقة نجد بالجزيرة العربية: سياسة ابن سعود" [و‎‎٢‎١‎٦] (٣٠٨/٧)

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From Chief Political Officer, Basra, 12th December 1916.
(Addressed Sirdar, Khartoum, for favour of onward transmission; repeated
Foreign, High Commissioner, and Secretary of State for India.)
^6776. Following is purport of message handed to Political Agent,
Koweit, for transmission by telegraph to Shereef of Mecca in reply to us
message of congratulation on Koweit meeting :
“ We tender our profoundest respects to Your Highness and intimate
that we have read the fatherly and affectionate message conveyed to your
sincere admirers through representatives of C^eat Bntain at Cano and
congratulating us on results of our meeting at Koweit with Abdul Aziz bm
Saud. The desire of our meeting was to promote welfare of Arab nation
and of Islam and to strengthen ties which bind us to Your Highness and to
honoured British Government, and we hope that union thus formed will
continue with happy results. It behoves us to act together sincerely foi
furtherance of this sacred purpose. All who have zeal for Arab nation wil
no doubt rejoice and follow our lead and example; those who do not will
never again be brought into right way. You say you would have sent a
representative had you known of our meeting previously, and had God so
willed it we should have been overjoyed thereat. In any event we lema
Your Holiness’s devoted adherents, and we pray God to advance all your
praiseworthy endeavours. May we gain your favours, and may you ever live
happy and gloriously.”